Charles Sumner: “The natural strength of the country, in point of numbers, appears to…”

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The natural strength of the country, in point of numbers, appears to me to consist much more in the blacks than in the whites.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner argues that the strength of the nation lies more in its Black population than in its white population.

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